A cleaner environment must be part of ‘New Normal’ — Villar

A cleaner environment should also be part of the

“new normal” that the Philippines would adopt amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Senator Cynthia Villar said on Friday.Villar, chair of the Senate committee on environment and natural resources, said that besides health and hygiene, environment also plays a crucial role in curbing the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Before the lockdowns, the Philippines ranked 57th out of 98 countries in IQAir AirVisual’s list of the “world’s most polluted countries” in 2019. Experts, however, feared that air pollution will return to unhealthy levels once the community quarantine is lifted.

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